brief introduction
Edward teach [1] was the first pirate when the government tried to ban it, but it got out of hand. In Queen Anne's time, he was a sailor on an armed civilian ship. He has a thick black beard. He belongs to Captain Goth, a great pirate. Later, he left Gott and started his own business. 17 15 years, when he commanded the Revenge Queen with 40 guns, he found the Royal Navy that ordinary pirates dared not provoke. His madness made his name a household name after World War I, and the whole Atlantic coast was plunged into the horror that "even the Royal Navy could not ensure safety".
"black beard"
He has deep wild eyes and a thick and unique beard. The beard is so ostentatious that sometimes it has to be tied into a lot of pigtails that run around in all directions. He has one eye, one leg is replaced by a piece of wood, and he wears deerskin boots all year round. He is full of energy and has an excellent appetite. He was drunk all day and smelled of sweat and gunpowder. The smell is so strong that everyone who wants to talk to him can't help taking a step back. He always wears a pair of epaulettes on his broad shoulders, and his holster is full of bullets and three pistols. What's more, when he is in a good mood, there is always a leisurely parrot on his shoulder. The most striking feature is that before each robbery, two lighted fuses were inserted under his D 'Artagnan hat, and black smoke was emitted from both ears, so that everyone saw him as if he was facing a powder keg that was about to explode at any time. This is the notorious pirate "Blackbeard".
Black beard was born.
Blackbeard's real name is edward teach, and he was born in Bristol, England on 1680. At that time, Britain was in turmoil and was at war with Spain, a maritime competitor for many years. As a result, the British government acquiesced in some armed civilian ships attacking and robbing foreign merchant ships at sea (mainly against Spanish merchant ships), and young Blackbeard became a sailor of such armed civilian ships.
Historical background
17 13, the "Anglo-Spanish naval battle" came to an end and Spain was defeated. According to the Treaty of Utrecht, the Strait of Gibraltar was not only ceded to Britain, but also monopolized the slave trade, and the British Empire became a veritable maritime hegemon. So "triangle trade" began to rise. The so-called "triangle trade" is the international trade centered on the slave trade. At that time, a large number of British businessmen transported glass, ceramics, various decorations, gin, guns, ammunition, bronze and tin utensils from Liverpool, Bristol and London to Africa to exchange slaves, then transported slaves to plantations in West India and South America, sold them to plantation owners, and bought colonial sugar and tobacco to return to Britain. Triangle trade brought a steady stream of money to Britain, and many people became very rich in a short time. In such a trade atmosphere, the original armed civilian ships are like a duck to water, and many sailors have become professional pirates. Later, they even robbed merchant ships of other countries, even Britain's own ships. As a result, the whole Caribbean has become a hunting ground for pirates. When the queen ordered the armed civilian ships to stop attacking merchant ships, she discovered what was meant by playing with fire and setting herself on fire. It is in this historical background that Blackbeard began his thrilling pirate career.
Black beard's death
17 18 autumn, Spotwood received a tip-off that Blackbeard's flagship "Adventurer" was moored in Oakcock Bay, and he immediately sent the two warships to catch it. At this time, Blackbeard was tipped off by his insider, the governor's secretariat. In the evening, they spent the night partying on the shore and returned to the pirate ship equipped with nine guns after dawn. In the afternoon 171865438+10/7, the two sides began to exchange fire. Captain Maynard saw a black beard flag hanging from the mast of another pirate ship in the distance-a blood-red heart and a white skull printed on the black background. Blackbeard's gunner is battle-hardened after all. As soon as they started fighting, they hit the "Lim" accurately, that is, the tail of a soldier with a black beard on board.
The soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and Captain Baker was killed immediately. Blackbeard turned the gun and fired at Pearl. In the fierce battle between the two sides, I saw Captain Blackbeard approaching the gun tube with a lighted fuse. He shouted sullenly, "Go to hell!" "Then, the little spark in his hand jumped up and spread back along the fuse. Subsequently, the breech gun slammed into the fork-shaped movable gun mount, and a deadly shell was ejected towards the British warship. The artillery regiment on the pirate ship bombarded the Royal Navy warships with breeches. The English sloop and the pirate ship gradually approached, one meter at a time, until the two ships suddenly contacted and met. Due to the complex terrain of Oklahock Bay, there are shoals and reefs everywhere, and the ships of both sides soon ran aground, and the naval battle became a land war. At this time, the captain Maynard on the naval ship ordered all the soldiers to hide immediately, leaving only two people standing on the deck as bait. Blackbeard was really taken in. He thought that all the people on board were killed. He climbed onto the Pearl with both hands and roared, and the Royal Navy suddenly rushed out from below and began a fierce hand-to-hand combat. In this bloody battle, Captain Maynard ended up with only 12 soldiers alive. Blackbeard thinks he will win soon. Suddenly, he found Captain Maynard, drew his gun and fired. Blackbeard and Captain Maynard pulled out their pistols almost at the same time, but Blackbeard didn't hit him because he was drunk. Maynard shot him in the stomach, and Blackbeard screamed at me and broke Maynard's sword. A sailor loaded a bullet and quickly stabbed him in the neck. Black beard choked Maynard's throat while spraying blood, and other sailors rushed to strike until he was killed. Later, when Captain Maynard and the soldiers cleaned up the battlefield, they always found 25 knife wounds and 5 gunshot wounds on Blackbeard. He ordered his men to cut off the black beard's head and feed it to the sharks.
A bearded head
There are two stories about Blackbeard's head: Some people say that after his head was cut off, Blackbeard swam many times and ventured until he disappeared into the depths of the sea forever. It is also said that Captain Maynard took the chopped head as a warning, hung it on the teeth of a warship and brought it back to Virginia. A week later, the black beard's head was boiled, wrapped in silver foil and made into a wine glass. Later, people used it in many pubs until the silver-plated pirate head mysteriously disappeared on the east coast of the United States.
Money and valuables
Why did the pirate's head glass mysteriously disappear later? It turned out that after Blackbeard's death, his buried treasure became the target of many people's search. Because it has never been found, someone wants to find clues about his hidden treasure from his head. Black beard's head
In fact, the search for Blackbeard's treasure began after he was killed. At that time, after Blackbeard was killed by Captain Maynard, the soldiers of the Royal Navy searched all the places on Blackbeard's pirate ship that might hide the treasure. But after searching, they only found 145 bags of cocoa beans, 1/barrel of wine, 1 barrel of indigo and1bag of cotton, but they didn't find any gold, silver or jewelry. Since then, there have been countless stories about the whereabouts of Blackbeard's treasure, because the captain of the merchant ship robbed by Blackbeard knows that he must have hidden a lot of treasures, but where are those treasures? As a result, all the daily necessities and residences related to Blackbeard have become the targets of treasure hunters. After many years, they finally admitted that Blackbeard was too cunning. He didn't leave a few words and any clues, let alone a treasure map. Not only that, Blackbeard declared shortly before his death that only the devil and himself could find the place where he hid his treasure.